PROVIDENCE — With over $30 million in total pledges, the Diocese of Providence is slightly past the halfway mark of the $50 million goal it set for its Grateful for God’s Providence Campaign. The ...

TO THE EDITOR:In a Sept. 26 editorial written by one of Rhode Island Catholic’s editorial writers the writer labels Ms. Greta Thunberg, a climate change advocate for her generation, as a pawn … ...

BARRINGTON — It was as a young student that Father James Ruggieri first became acquainted with the Carmelite Sisters in Barrington.“As a seventh-grader I started going to the Carmelite … ...

Catholic Schools Superintendent Dan Ferris stands at center with St. Thomas Parish Pastor Father John Soares and St. Thomas Regional School Principal Mary DiMuccio among the school’s student body ...

Posted Thursday, March 9, 2023 6:00 am By Cole DeSantis, Rhode Island Catholic Correspondent PROVIDENCE — On Monday, March 6, members of the House Judiciary Committee met to discuss two bills of ...

In the opening lines of Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ recent encyclical on the environment, he liberally quotes his predecessors in the Chair of Peter to illustrate that care for our common home — and ...

PROVIDENCE — During the 14 years Father James Ruggieri has served as pastor of St. Patrick Church, Providence, the parish and accompanying school have dedicated themselves to the Church’s ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Bishop George V. Murry, the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Youngstown, died June 5 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York, after a two-year battle with leukemia, … ...

For centuries, the vast majority of mankind lived as peasants, as serfs, even as slaves. The landed gentry, which have always been a small percentage of the human race, employed the majority of ...

PROVIDENCE — The outreach being done each day by diocesan Hispanic Ministry will benefit from the proceeds of this year’s Lumen Gentium Awards Banquet, which will be held on Wednesday, May 16, at Twin ...

NEW YORK (CNS) -- During a major, historic wave of Irish immigration to the United States at the turn of the last century, a tenacious Catholic effort helped one-third of the young, single Irish women ...

This is a good question because it clears up a common misconception about the feast of the Immaculate Conception, which I wrote about two weeks ago. In defense of the questioner, his question was ...